Science Party!

We have a tradition of having a 'friend party' every-other year for birthdays.  This year was a 'friend party' year. I was thinking that we wanted to have about 10 kids so I invited a few extra (because there's never a party that everyone shows up to)  then last minute, Ruth decided to invite a couple of other neighbor kids.  This brought our total up to 16 kids.  And guess what!  They ALL showed up!  Since the weather was bad, we had to do it inside.  It was a MAD HOUSE.  But we had fun.  If it weren't for Keli and my mom I would have drown in a sea of first-graders.  Anyway, because of the chaos, I was lucky to get as many pictures as i did.

For Ruth's Science Party we:

1. Made home-made bouncy balls
2. Made home-made volcanoes
3. Experimented with invisible ink
4. Made oobleck
5. Ate cake and ice cream
6. Set off the volcanoes with baking soda and vinegar
7. Made a diet coke/mentos fountain outside

The kids had lots of fun and Ruth made out like a bandit with more presents than she knows what to do with. I'm so glad it's over!

The cake was supposed to look like a beaker with pink fluid inside.

I rigged it so I could put dry ice inside so it would create a fog effect.

Here's the birthday girl with her safety goggles and a homemade headband on.

Blowing out the "7"-shaped candle.

Ducky Disaster

We had a disaster a couple of weeks ago.  I decided to try and make some fancy cupcakes.  Let's just say I learned a lot through this experience.  But we had a lot of fun and they did taste good. :)

Here are the best of the batch.

The beaks kept falling off.

Keli and Skyler had a lot of fun helping out.

Poor widdle guy.

These ducks were yummy!

Gareth's Pirate Cake

Another Cake

I made this snowman cake to celebrate both my nephew's and my brother's birthdays.  (I can't take credit for the hat though, Jonesy did that!)

 Yes, the nose is a candle!